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Post #1171382

Author
Mrebo
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
15-Feb-2018, 12:37 PM

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

Most gun deaths are suicides. The US has a lower suicide rate than some of those countries.

Yeah ok but we’re talking about homicides.

On the topic of gun deaths, I wanted emphasize that fact since the discussion revolves around gun control. To be clear, the chart addresses gun homicides. And as stated in the link:

The Australian study found that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people correlated with up to a 50 percent drop in firearm homicides, and a 74 percent drop in gun suicides. As Dylan Matthews noted for Vox, the drop in homicides wasn’t statistically significant. But the drop in suicides most definitely was — and the results are striking.